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Creating and Enhancing Digital Astro Images

Digital imaging is now available to all amateur astronomers at a reasonable price. The advent of CCDs, DSLRs and - perhaps most significantly - webcams mean today's astronomers can make colorful planetary or deep-sky images of breathtaking beauty. The results obtained with even modest equipment...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Privett, Grant (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Springer London : Imprint: Springer, 2007.
Edición:1st ed. 2007.
Colección:The Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy Series,
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Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgements.-The myriad advantages of image processing (introduction)
  • Choosing a camera
  • Acquiring images (and choosing software)
  • Displaying images
  • Image reduction
  • Flat fields
  • Dark subtraction
  • Image transformations
  • Image stacking
  • Image mosaicing
  • Image scaling and histograms
  • Background gradients
  • Image enhancement
  • Image sharpening
  • Image unsharp masking
  • Image deconvolution
  • Handling colour images
  • Achieving colour balance
  • CMY or RGB?- Other problems
  • Handling image sequences and webcams
  • Image acquisition
  • Image quality techniques
  • Automated image processing
  • What is best for
  • Planets
  • Deep Sky
  • Widefield imaging
  • The pitfalls
  • Postscript
  • Notes on image contributors
  • Appendices
  • Software
  • Hardware + Software Suppliers
  • References
  • Further reading
  • Index.